Colorizing images

Sometimes you need to colorize an image, that is, apply a color to an imported image. You can do this in InDesign but …there are conditions. It has to be a pixel based image, no Illustrator vector files. It has to be a grayscale image, can't …already be in color and there cannot be any transparency in the image. So it has to be a flattened grayscale image like a …TIFF or a psd file. I'll show you how it works. I've opened the Javaco magazine document and I am going to go to the …previous spread by pressing Option + Page up or Alt + Page up and I'm going to place my grayscale image into this frame.…

So, I'll select that frame, choose Place and pick my grayscale image, DSC19gray. Click Open and the grayscale image is …imported into that frame. Now how do I colorize it? Well, you use the Swatches panel. I'll click on the Swatches panel and …here is where all my color Swatches are. I'll be talking about Filling and Stroking and …making new Colors in later movies but for right now, I simply want to Fill with a color. …

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4/16/2007

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